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Intel Accused Of “Bribery and Coercion” In New Anti-Trust Suit

The N.Y. Attorney General's office is accusing Intel of using bribes and coercion to pressure OEMs, including HP, Dell and IBM, into favoring its products over those from rival AMD

Microsoft Cuts Another 800 Jobs Worldwide

Microsoft confirms plans to cut another 800 employees from its worldwide payroll, as part of its longer-term plan to eliminate 5,000 positions

Cisco’s Chambers Sees Brighter Economic Future

Cisco CEO John Chambers says the economic recovery in the IT industry is picking up momentum

Cisco EMC Cloud Venture Launched Under Acadia Name

New company still doesn't have a CEO or a headquarters, but this shouldn't worry a virtualisation expert

HP Takes On Datacentre Rivals With Converged Infrastructure

Hewlett-Packard is pulling together its network and server strength into a converged infrastructure to take on Cisco and others

IBM: Fossil Fuel Companies Are Climate Change Victims, Not Perpetrators

Skirting carefully around the fact that fossil fuels contribute to climate change, IBM has plenty of advice for how oil and gas companies can respond to the threat from global warming

Red Hat Undercuts Microsoft With Server Virtualisation Tool

Red Hat is rolling out its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform, which is aimed at heterogeneous server environments and cloud computing deployment

Apple Update Kills Intel Atom Support

The latest software upgrade to Apple's Snow Leopard has ended support for Intel Atom chips, reports are suggesting

Data Centres: Does Reliability Clash With Efficiency?

New data centres are more efficient than their predecessors, but they have to be reliable too. Peter Judge asks - what happens when the need for reliability clashes with the demand for efficiency?

EU Considers Digital Consumer Protection Crackdown

European regulators claim that consumers need greater online protection

Computacenter Launches Tier IV Data Centre In Romford UK

Computacenter has launched Europe's first certified Tier IV data centre - in the last major data centre site to be built within the M25

Yahoo Drifts Towards Open Source Cloud Computing

Yahoo takes its second major step in five months toward open-source cloud computing by introducing an open-source version of Traffic Server

Cloud Ushers In New Security Frontier

Widespread adoption of cloud computing is likely to entail a plethora of management and security challenges, warns original Windows NT developer Mark Shavlik

Review: Red Hat’s Fedora 12 Beta Operating System

eWEEK Labs' tests show that Fedora 12 will provide the latest and greatest versions of popular open-source applications, as well as features that strengthen not only Fedora but also Linux distributions in general

Asus Launches First USB 3.0 Motherboard

One of the world's major electronics makers has launched a motherboard that can support the speedy USB 3.0 specfication

Broadband In Kenya: Small Steps For Big Rewards

The first broadband centre opened in Kenya earlier this year, but what effect will faster internet access have on a largely agricultural community, and how has the service been received so far?

Cisco To Team Up With EMC For Virtualised Services Venture

Cisco and EMC are planning to stamp their names on data centre technology with the launch of their latest cloud co-venture

IBM Shows Truckers Can Pull Their Weight On Climate Change

Technologies such as telematics could improve the efficiency of trucks and other heavy goods vehicles, IBM says

Report Reveals Security Threats To Data Centres

Industry association AFCOM finds that 40 percent of all data centres are still using at least one mainframe and also raises security concerns

ICANN Allows Non-Latin Domain Names

The Internet regulator ICANN has moved closer to opening up the Internet to domains in other character sets beside the Latin alphabet

Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal Put On Hold

Microsoft and Yahoo have delayed signing their search deal, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission

Emulex Aims To Combine Ethernet And Storage

Storage networker Emulex has moved into Ethernet with its OneConnect adapter yesterday, with 10Gb Ethernet and iSCSI connectivity

EC Announces €300m Smart And Green Networks Fund

The future is smart and green, says the European Commission

Mobile Usage Shifts Indoors But Results In Poor Service

People are increasingly relying on mobile phones for business, although complaints of poor network reception in doors are increasing

Flu-Stricken Home Workers Could Bring Internet Down

Residential networks will struggle if a flu pandemic causes thousands of staff to work from home, warn analysts

Intel Claims Phase-Change Memory Breakthrough

Intel and its solid-state processor research affiliate, Numonyx, has revealed what they described as a "key breakthrough" in their continuing research on phase-change memory, or PCM